# E-Mail Adresses

David Matovich (david@castle.net)
Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:09:49 PST

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    Your right, this is overkill, BUT, I just like to know.  I had a really
    great reason buts its too eraly in the morning for me to remember =)
    -David Matovich

    On Sun, 21 Jan 1996, Matt Pauker wrote:

    > At 5:50 PM 1/21/96, David Matovich wrote:
    > >would it be possible to 'check-out' a given E-MAIL address to see if it
    > >actually exists.  Like if passed "david@castle.net" it returns 1, but if
    > >I passed it "asfk@castle.net" it would return 0.
    >
    > You could just finger the user - Connect to port 79 of the domain (In this
    > case castle.net), and just send the username (david).  If you get anything
    > other than:
    >
    > finger: <username>: no such user
    >
    > Then the email is valid.
    >
    > Though I must say this is really overkill.  After all, someone would be
    > pretty dumb to enter the wrong email during creation - They would be able
    > to get their password...
    >
    > Matt Pauker
    >
    >